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The developers of McClellan Park are pouring in $8 million to renovate and convert the former Air Force base's 120-room hotel, theater and other facilities into a large conference and events center.
When it opens in February, Lions Gate Hotel & Suites would be the largest conference and meeting center in any local business park. Intended mainly to lure tenants, Lions Gate is also being pitched to businesses and people in North Highlands for banquets, weddings, meetings and other events.
The Air Force left McClellan last year, handing the surplus property to Sacramento County government. The county has since sold most of it, minus the airport, for $85 million to McClellan Business Park LLC, a development partnership headed by Larry Kelley.
The partnership has been managing the park for two years, and has signed leases good for more than 6,000 jobs and 3 million square feet so far.
Kelley's group had been working since March to create...